After the CEO Goes Bankrupt

The full novel is complete. My new novel, "As a Vampire, I Was Confessed to by a Human" (originally titled "The Duke Was Bitten by a Human"), is now underway! Please add it to your library!

In the eyes of others, Rao Tingnan had led a life of one success after another, but she suffered two spectacular setbacks. The first was because of Zuo Zhiyuan, and the second was also because of Zuo Zhiyuan.

And then? Rao Tingnan, the CEO of Tangqing, went bankrupt just like that, reduced to selling her house and car to pay off her debts.

Life really is full of ups and downs, and then more downs.

But how was she supposed to pay back all that money?

The familiar person in front of her smiled like a cat that had just stolen a fish and held out a contract selling her into servitude. "Sign this and I'll pay off your debt."

She snatched the thing and tore it up, her face cold. "Don't even think about it."

The person in front of her didn't seem bothered and offered her another contract. "Then be my assistant. I'll pay you a salary."

Rao Tingnan hesitated for a while, weighed it over and over, and finally signed the devil's contract.

Wait, how was this personal assistant job the kind that meant being personal at home, too?

"Hey, Zuo Zhiyuan, I'm warning you, don't come any closer. We broke up amicably!"

"What are we? We're strictly colleagues, boss and employee!"

"Pouting won't work on me!"

On the day of the appointment, the company's gossip-loving group chat filled up with fresh rumors.

[Hey, I heard President Zuo's new secretary is her ex.]

[I heard that too. Assistant Rao is so pretty, but why did they break up?]

[Shh, I heard it was a business dispute. Assistant Rao used to be a CEO, too, but her company went bankrupt and was liquidated before our company acquired it. Rumor has it our company sabotaged her.]

[Huh? That's not the version I heard. Wasn't Assistant Rao a heartbreaker, and Chairwoman Zuo stepped in angrily?]

[Oh my god! Then President Zuo is getting revenge, right? Right?]

In the end, everyone in the gossip group agreed: Don't go into President Zuo's office. It's a battlefield in there.

That is, until an eyewitness saw Assistant Rao fold her arms and scold the supposedly arrogant and overbearing President Zuo until she was cowering like a quail.

The eyewitness also said: President Zuo got her revenge by pinning Assistant Rao against the wall and kissing her.

The gossip group: [Wow! Spicy!]

And later?

One day at home, Zuo Zhiyuan jumped into Rao Tingnan's arms and nuzzled against her.

Rao Tingnan caught her with practiced ease, lifted her head to kiss her chin, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zuo Zhiyuan produced another document from who-knows-where and handed it to Rao Tingnan. "Big Sis, let's get married."

Later, someone interviewed Rao Tingnan and asked, "Chairwoman Rao, what period of your life do you consider the most memorable?"

Rao Tingnan, then chairwoman of the Zuo Group, answered seriously, "The time I went bankrupt."

"Oh? Was it because the hardships helped you grow?"

"No. It was because I won my love back."

Highlight: There was more to the bankruptcy than met the eye. Little Zuo was completely innocent.

Two mature, assertive women. A powerful couple. Sweet romance. Each other's one and only.

My completed novellas include "After Transmigrating into a Brain-Dead Power Fantasy, I Only Want to Build a Career" and "I Was Revived from My Coffin and Carried Off to a Dragon's Nest by an Evil Dragon". Read with confidence!

The following is a preview of my upcoming novel. Please add it to your library! It'll be my next release~

Duchess Qin Weixi was famous among vampires for being finicky, fastidious, and obsessive-compulsive.

When she was young, she once declared, "My desserts must taste as rich as roses when they enter my mouth, as icy as snow on my tongue, and as fiery as flames going down my throat. Otherwise, I won't eat them!"

The young duchess set herself that lofty goal, and from then on, she drank nothing but cold, dry industrial blood.

Then one day, to her great delight, she found a filthy human girl at a black-market slave trader's stall. The girl gave off the most tempting dessert-like aroma.

Qin Weixi happily bought her and took her home. She scrubbed the dessert clean, put on a napkin, sharpened her knives and forks, and brushed her teeth. Butler, however, told her with a troubled expression:

"Master, out of respect for the new human empire, the two peoples have just issued a joint statement. From now on, keeping desserts as pets is prohibited, and tasting them is forbidden unless both parties are willing."

The duchess's cutlery clattered onto her plate.

"Return her! Return her!"

"M-Master, the slave trader ran away. We can't return her."

"Then throw her out on the street!"

"Master, that wouldn't be appropriate."

"Then what do you suggest?"

"Keep her in the manor?" the butler ventured cautiously, offering a terrible idea.

"Good point. It's just a matter of both parties being willing. How hard can that be?" The duchess slapped the table.

From then on, the duchess had a little shadow following her everywhere.

From then on, the duchess had a new daily task: cheer up the little one and raise her affection.

Then one day, the duchess went to see her little dessert as usual, only to have the tables turned by the little dessert, who had been waiting for her.

The little dessert whispered in her ear, "My lady, do you know what 'both parties being willing' means in the human world?"

The duchess, long accustomed to this kind of impertinence, shook her head in confusion.

"It means, 'I like you.'"

Soft, scattered kisses fell along her neck as the little dessert parted her lips slightly.

The duchess yelped and stared wide-eyed.

I-I, a vampire, just got bitten by a human?!!

All those fussy requirements of mine were just to wait for you to appear.

Theme: Even when life is full of hardship, we must face adversity with a smile.